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**»«« *• THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 21, 1978
Arts Festival of Atlanta members (left to right) John Oetgen,
Fay Gold and Bruce Sutka step into the disco scene with disco
instructor Steve Smith (front), in preparation for the Disco Ball on
April 26 honoring the Arts Festival’s silver anniversary.
Other members of the committee include Lenore Gold, Herb
Neubauer and Susan Rosemarin. President of this year’s festival is
Betsy Baker with Mark Taylor serving as chairman of the Festival
board.
Michael Cohen, Savannah’s
world class middleweight
weightlifter, has established three
new collegiate records in
competition in the National
Collegiate Weightlifting
Championships. A gold medal
winner in the Maccabiah Games in
Israel last year, Cohen broke
records he set when he broke all
three collegiate records last year in
the 165-pound division. Winner of
the best lifter award in the national
collegiate championship, Cohen is
a bona fide candidate for the U.S.
Olympic team for the 1980
Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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David Goldwasser, president of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation, has been named vice
president of the Emory College
Assembly for the Arts and Science.
David Herckis, of Atlanta, has
been elected president of the Ethan
Allan Carriage House Furniture
Stores, Inc., of Atlanta. Herckis is
a native of Savannah and a
Georgia Tech graduate.
He has served on the board of
directors of the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce and is also the
immediate past president of its
North Area Council. He is married
to the former Elaine Feldman and
they have two children.
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Dr. (Mark L. Fisher, director of
the Jewish Vocational Service of
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation, recently attended the
American Personnel and
Guidance Association Conference
in Washington, D.C. and the
National Association of Jewish
Vocational Services (NAJVS)
Conference in Philadelphia.
New York’s Governor Hugh Carey (right) receives the Warsaw
Ghetto Resistance Organization's “Memorandum for History"
from the organization’s president Holocaust survivor Benjamin
Meed. The document lauded Carey for statements he had made
regarding his experience as a U.S. Army Infantry officer at
Nordhaaten concentration camp in Germany, when after seeing
the survivors of death he vowed that he would fight for peace as
long as he lived, “for the rights of mankind, and against any form of
hate.”
Steven Susman
The Bar Mitzva of Steven Mark
Susman of Atlanta will take place
af 10:30 a m. Saturday, April 29,
at the Temple. A congregational
Kiddush will follow. Steven is the
son of Sue and Seymour Susman.
He is the grandson of M r. and M rs.
Hy mie Susman and of M rs. M uriel
Morfct and the late Harry J. Moret.
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Philadelphia Governor Milton
J. Shapp has ventured into a new
area and has just completed a
musical comedy that he expects
will be a big hit on Broadway next
year.
Sharon and Steven Hamburger
of Atlanta announce the birth of a
daughter, Mindy Sarah, on March
9. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Willen of Atlanta and Mrs.
Martha Hamburger of Atlanta
and the late Henry Hamburger.
Great-grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Harry B. Siegel of Miami
Beach.
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Aaron and Hedy Borenstein of
Norcross, Ga. announce the birth
of a son, Adam Seth, on March 27.
Grandparents arc Mr. and Mrs.
Max Borenstein of Atlanta and
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Schreibman of
Sunrise, Fla. The bris was
performed by Rabbi I.M.
Aisenstark.
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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Werbin
of Atlanta announce the birth of a
daughter, Robyn Joan, on March
29. Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Irving M. Galanty and Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Werbin, all of
Atlanta.
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Mark and Maxine Susman of
Savannah announce the birth of a
son, Brian Lance, on March 31.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Bryan of Savannah and Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Susman of
Florida. Great-grandmother is
Mrs. Mathe Lena Susman of New
York. The bris was performed by
Rabbi I.M. Aisenstark with Rabbi
Sholom Strajcher officiating.
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Maurice and Annie Cohen of
Marietta announce the birth of a
son, Daniel Mathys, on April 4.
Grandmother is Mrs. Stella Cohen
of Atlanta. The bris was performed
by Rabbi I.M. Aisenstark with
Rabbi Robert Ichay officiating.
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Ira and Debbie Richter of
Stone Mountain announce the
birth of a daugher, Erinne Hope,
on March 31. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Pritikin of
Nashville, Tenn. and Mr. and Mrs.
Irving Richter of Houston, Tex.
Great-grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Abe Levy and Michael
Pritikin, all of Nashville
I.T. Cohen (left) of Atlanta receives the State of Israel Bonds
Prime Minister’s pin from Atlanta Bonds chairman Dr. William E.
Schatten (third from left). Cohen along with Dr. Marvin C.
Goldstein (second from left), Bernard Halpern (second from right)
and Jacques Torczyner, former Zionist Organization of America
president, (far right) were named Anniversary Members of the
Prime Minister's Club for purchasing $30,000 or more each in
Israel Bonds in honor of Israel's 30th anniversary.
TV producer Norman Lear
scored top ratings with the
students of Tel Aviv University
when he told a gathering, “Already
in one week I’ve picked up the
Israeli opinion habit and have an
opinion about what Israel should
return in any peace agreement. I
think they should give back
nothing.”
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Mrs. Alice Sherr of Atlanta has
been named by Georgia Governor
George Busbee as an Outstanding
Volunteer of 1978 in Georgia. Mrs.
Sherr has been a teacher’s aide in
the Learning Disabilities program
at Montclair Elementary School
for the past seven years. Mrs. Sherr
and her husband Saul and their
family are members of
Congregation Shearith Israel.
At the same time that Judy
Resnik was chosen as one of six *
women to train as an astronaut,
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, Harvard-
trained scientist, was one of 35
candidates selected for training for
space shuttle missions by NASA.
The 33-year-old astronomist, an
avid mountaineer, parachutist and
sailor, believes that in a hundred
years people will be “living in
space, and space will become the
natural habitat for a lot of people."
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Dr. Saul I. Teplitz, spiritual
leader of Congregation Sqns of
Israel, of Woodmere, N.Y., was
elected president of the Rabbinical
Assembly at its 78th annual
Convention at the Concord Hotel.
Currently the president of the
Synagogue Council of America,
Rabbi Teplitz will now head the
thousand member organization
of Conservative rabbis.
Consul Yuval Metser of the Office of the Consulate General of
Israel (left) discusses the recent Middle East situation with Dr.
Leon J. Weinberger, professor of religious studies at the University
of Alabama (Center). Metser visited the University as part of its
“Israel Awareness Week.”